A Princess of Mars

first editionHardcover

1917·Chicago

by Burroughs, Edgar Rice

Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co, 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Schoonover, Frank E.. The author's first published work, originally serialized as Under the Moons of Mars in The All-Story in 1912. xiii, [4], 326, [1]p. Original dark brown cloth stamped in red on the front and the spine. Frontispiece and four inserted plates with illustrations by Frank E. Schoonover. "The first and best of the Martian novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars is not great literature, but for its historical importance should be read by all serious students of the form." Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 304. "... Burroughs's most simple and yet most epic narrative." Barron, Anatomy of Wonder, 1981, 1-31. Mild rubbing to cloth, a hint of foxing to top and fore edge. A bright, near fine copy. In Bleiler, 1978, p. 35.; Octavo.
(Inventory #: 26782)

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